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At Maxim Integrated, we set high expectations for the ethical conduct of our leadership, employees, and suppliers. We believe that maintaining high standards of accountability and transparency is critical in the execution of our business. Since our founding, the diversity of experiences and backgrounds of our Directors have been important as we developed as a company and will continue to be a crucial element to our continued success.

With the exception of Tunç Doluca, Maxim Integrated’s Chief Executive Officer, all of the members of our Board of Directors are “independent directors” as that term is defined in the NASDAQ Stock Market Rules (“NASDAQ”). Our Board is committed to providing oversight of the company’s strategy and performance in an effective and constructive manner with the goal of representing the best interests of our stockholders.

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Ms. Accardi has served as Vice President of Global Research and Development, Breast and Skeletal Health Solutions at Hologic since 2014, where she leads development of screening, diagnostic and biopsy systems for the detection and treatment of breast cancer. Previously, Ms. Accardi was Chief Technology Officer at Omniguide Surgical from 2012 to 2014, and Executive Consultant at Mednest Consulting from 2011 to 2012, after having held senior research and development positions at Covidien from 2007 to 2011, Johnson & Johnson Company from 2003 to 2007, and Philips Medical Systems from 2001 to 2003. In prior experience, she served in various managerial roles in Corporate Research and Development, Healthcare and Aerospace at General Electric from 1981 to 2001. She received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

James R. Bergman has served as a director of Maxim Integrated since 1988. Mr. Bergman was a founder and has been a general partner of DSV Associates since 1974. He is also a founder and general partner of its successors, DSV Partners III and DSV Partners IV. These firms provided venture capital and management assistance to emerging companies, primarily in high technology. Since July 1997, Mr. Bergman has also served as a special limited partner of Cardinal Health Partners and Cardinal Partners II, both also private venture capital funds. He attended UCLA where he graduated with honors with a BS in Engineering and later received an MBA with distinction.

Joseph R. Bronson is Principal and Chief Executive Officer of The Bronson Group, LLC. He has served as a director of Maxim Integrated since November 2007. Mr. Bronson was the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Silicon Valley Technology Company (SVTC), a private company that provides technical services to the semiconductor and solar industries, from 2009 to March 2010. Mr. Bronson was President and Chief Operating Officer of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, a worldwide contract manufacturer, from August 2007 to October 2008. In addition, Mr. Bronson also served on Sanmina-SCI's Board of Directors between August 2007 and January 2009. Before joining Sanmina-SCI, he served as President, co-CEO, and was a member of the board of directors of FormFactor, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced semiconductor wafer probe cards from 2004 until 2007. Prior to 2004, Mr. Bronson was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Applied Materials where he spent 20 years in senior-level operations management positions. He is on the board of directors of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., a $10 billion provider of technical, professional, and construction services. He also serves on the board of directors of SDC Materials, a private company in the field of nanotechnology. Mr. Bronson is a Trustee of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut and Bellarmine Academy Preparatory School in San Jose, California. He also holds the Chair of the Leavey School of Business Advisory Board and the International Business School Advisory Board at the University of Connecticut. Mr. Bronson is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of CPAs. He was inducted into the University of Connecticut Business School Hall of Fame in 2005.

Tunç Doluca has served as a director of Maxim Integrated as well as its President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2007. Mr. Doluca joined Maxim in 1984 as a Member of Technical Staff. After several promotions, he was named Vice President of R&D in 1994. At that time Mr. Doluca designed the industry's first high-integration, notebook power-supply IC (the MAX786), and designed ICs until 1996. While at Maxim, Mr. Doluca personally designed over 40 products and holds 11 patents. In 1994 he became the leader of the Company's first vertical business unit for portable power-management products. Mr. Doluca's management responsibilities continued to expand; he was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2004 and Group President in 2005. Born in Ankara, Turkey, Mr. Doluca holds a BSEE degree from Iowa State University and an MSEE degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Robert E. Grady has served as a director of Maxim Integrated since August 2008. Mr. Grady has been a Partner and head of the Industrial Growth Group at Gryphon Investors, a private equity firm, since March 2015. Previously, he served for five years as Managing Director at the Cheyenne Capital Fund. He was also both Chairman of New Jersey's Council of Economic Advisors (appointed by former Governor Chris Christie) and Chairman of the New Jersey State Investment Council, which oversees the state's $78 billion pension fund, from 2010 through 2014. Mr. Grady was a Partner, Managing Director, and Member of the Management Committee at The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest alternative asset managers, from 2000 to 2009. He served as Chairman and Fund Head of Carlyle's U.S. venture and growth capital group, Carlyle Venture Partners (CVP), and on the investment committees of CVP, Carlyle Asia Growth Partners, and Carlyle Europe Technology Partners. Mr. Grady currently serves as Lead Independent Director on the Board of Directors of Stifel Financial (NYSE: “SF”), which acquired Thomas Weisel Partners Group, where he had previously served as a Director, in June 2010. He also serves on the board of directors of privately-held companies Potter Electric Signal, Transportation Insight, and the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Mr. Grady is a former Director and Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (“NVCA”). From 1993 to 2000 he was a Partner and Member of the Management Committee at Robertson Stephens & Company. From 1993 to 2004 Mr. Grady also served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a Lecturer in Public Management. From 1989 to 1993 he served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States of America, as Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and as Associate Director of OMB for Natural Resources, Energy and Science. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

William P. Sullivan has been a director of Maxim Integrated since December 2015 and has been Chairman of the Board since May 2016. Mr Sullivan served as chief executive officer of Agilent Technologies, a global provider of scientific instruments, software, services and consumables in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, from 2005 to March 2015. Mr. Sullivan was Agilent’s president from 2005 to 2012 and 2013 to 2014. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer from 2002 to 2005 and senior vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Semiconductor Products Group from 1999 to 2002. Mr. Sullivan is currently on the board of directors for Edison International and was previously a director of Agilent, Avnet, Inc., and URS Corporation. He is a graduate of the University of California, Davis.

Mr. Watkins has served as a director of Maxim Integrated since August 2008. Since December 2013, Mr. Watkins has been the Chief Executive Officer of Imergy Power Systems (formerly Imergy Power Solutions), a leader in battery storage technology, and served as Chairman of the Board from December 2013 to December 2017. From February 2010 to April 2013, Mr. Watkins was the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Bridgelux, Inc., a leading light emitting diode (LED) developer. Mr. Watkins was Seagate Technology’s Chief Executive Officer between July 2004 and January 2009 and was a member of its board of directors between 2000 and January 2009. Previously, Mr. Watkins was Seagate’s President and Chief Operating Officer, a position he had held since 2000, and in this capacity was responsible for the company’s global hard disc drive operations. Mr. Watkins joined Seagate in 1996 as part of the company’s merger with Conner Peripherals. In addition to Maxim Integrated, Mr. Watkins currently serves on the board of directors of Flextronics International Ltd. and serves as the Chair of the board of directors of Avaya Holdings. Mr. Watkins is co-owner of the Vancouver Stealth.

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Ms. Wright has served as the Principal Owner of TechGoddess LLC since May 2017. Prior to that, Ms. Wright served as Group Vice President, Technology and Industry Relations at Johnson Controls from 2007 to 2017. During her 10-year tenure with Johnson Controls, she served in several leadership roles focused on R&D, engineering and product development. Before joining Johnson Controls, Ms. Wright was Executive Vice President of Engineering, Product Development, Commercial and Program Management at Collins & Aikman Corporation from 2006 to 2007. Prior to that, she served in several executive management positions at Ford Motor Company during her tenure from 1988 to 2005. Ms. Wright has served as a director of Group 1 Automotive, Inc. and Delphi Technologies PLC since 2014 and 2017, respectively. She received a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan, her Master of Business Administration from Wayne State University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Economics from the University of Michigan.

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This presentation contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the Company’s projections and statements regarding revenue, gross margin, earnings per share, capital expenditures and other financial and business metrics. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Please refer to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 24, 2017 for a description of some of the risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements included in this presentation are made as of the date hereof, based on the information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.

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